Each track on Hetman's Зшита з попелу книга, or Sewn From The Ashes Book, if you prefer, is like an epic folk odyssey in miniature; every composition exists outside the constraints of its length (though the duration is not inconsiderable), beginning and ending in much different places, striving ceaselessly for a powerful and time-worn sound.

When your debut is one of the best metal records ever released, also defining an entire genre, it takes a lot of effort to live up to it through the rest of your career. Morbid Angel have not recorded a death metal album in the last 14 years; they have not recorded a great death metal album in the last 24 years. Kingdoms Disdained is a death metal record through and through. Keep reading to find out if it is great or not.

Kawir are hailing from the black metal abyss of the 1990s, but they haven't had the recognition of bands like Rotting Christ, Necromantia or Varathron even though they were born from the same Greek ominous womb. Since 2008's Ophiolatreia, the group has been steadily gaining acclaim and new fans and Exilasmos is, I dare say, their best effort to date.

Moonspell have returned with a concept album sung entirely in Portuguese language and focusing on the massive earthquake that took place in Lisbon in 1755, resulting in a devastating number of human casualties and a city turned to rubble. But you already know all that because the band has made quite an effort to promote these certain traits of their new album and this is called good marketing. The question is if 1755 lives up to the great expectations it created as soon as it was announced.

Most of you probably aren't familiar with Dreadrealm, a new atmospheric black metal, one-man band from Estonia, for which the music, lyrics, vocals, instrumentation and production are handled exclusively by Metren Angerjärv. The Essence Of Winter is his project's debut and let me now tell you why you should do yourself a favour and get to know Dreadrealm sooner rather than later.

Terrible news surfaced today for Nevermore and Sanctuary fans as singer Warrel Dane has reportedly passed away in Brazil, according to Brazilian news source UOL. He also had a solo career and was in fact working on a new solo album. He was only 56 years old. Warrel Dane possessed a unique voice, penned thought-provoking lyrics and his music will live on. Rest in peace...Read more

This sixth article... Well, it's way late. But November is NaNoWriMo month after all, and as it was my first take in partaking in this world writing challenge, it came first. But I did it, and so we can come back to our original schedule .

In case you missed the coverage of the first day of the festival, my write-up of Saturday the 28th is right here. DAY TWO: ARMY OF DARKNESS As scheduled, I inexplicably woke up during the morning hours, went to church, and informed the Vatican about the inappropriate Halloween costumes that had been spotted in the area the previous night. Afterwards, I returned home, realized that somebody had elbowed me very sharply in the back during the previous evening, and began a week of stunning back pain. Fortunately, I would soon be too occupied to notice; having begun Saturday with Evil Dead II, it...

In 2017, the organizers of Maryland Death Fest branched out yet again and instituted another large gathering of very loud bands and the sweaty, unruly doofuses who listen to them: Days of Darkness Festival, a two-day event held at Rams Head Live, one of the main hosts of MDF every year. Despite being from Maryland, I have never attended Maryland Death Fest, unless unintentionally watching Candlemass from behind a chain-link fence across the parking lot counts; in fact, while I have attended individual days of festivals on a few occasions, until now, I had never ascended to that upper tier of concertgoer...